College Heights news for Oct 2, 2019
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• This Sunday evening: help finish our "top values"
• Worship service this Sunday: animal blessing
• No parking at church on Thu, Oct 3
• Meditation in the Redwoods on Fri, Oct 4
• Recording of Roy Gesley's sermon
• Save the dates
• Quote of the week
• Events this week
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This Sunday evening: Help us finish our list of top values
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This Sunday, Oct 6 at 6 pm, join us at a smorgy (potluck dinner and conversation) where we'll finish our list of the church's top values.
At our last meeting with church development coach Jason Hubbard, we told stories that describe
how
our community behaves. Afterwards, our wordsmithing group met and distilled those stories into these four core values:
1. Committed relationships: We show up. We do what needs to be done. We seek depth and are willing to risk and to try new things.
2. Compassion: We embody kindness and safety to those in need.
3. Authenticity: We speak up and speak out with honesty, integrity and tact.
4. Inclusivity: We practice mutual respect and acceptance, making sure everyone is heard.
We're currently missing a value that relates to spirituality. (That’s only because we were working from the stories told at our last workshop, not because spirituality is missing from our behaviors. The solution is to tell some more stories! That’s what we’ll do at this event.)
If you can’t be there Sunday night,
email Polly
any stories that illustrate how we have invited and acknowledged the presence of the Spirit in our midst. We’ll add them to the mix. Thanks, and see you Sunday.
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Worship this week: animal blessing
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On Sun, Oct 6 at 10 am, we will be celebrating the Feast Day of Saint Francis and the Blessing of the Animals. Saint Francis is particularly known for his love of and communication with the animals he encountered. If you have an animal, please bring it to our 10 am worship service — or maybe you can borrow an animal, or bring a friend who has one! It is very sweet to worship with the animals around us.
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No parking at church this Thu, Oct 3
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All sorts of paving is happening around the church this week.
Condo parking lot: On Thu, Oct 3, our neighbors in the condos will be repaving their parking lot, including our shared parking lot entrance from Hillsdale Boulevard. This means no cars will be able to come in or out of our lot on Thursday. To access the church that day, please park on the street.
Asphalt behind church: For the past two days, TRA Preschool has been applying asphalt behind the church (in the once and future playground area). Please stay off the asphalt this week while it dries.
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Meditation in the Redwoods Fri, Oct 4
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Can’t make it to Wednesday morning meditation? Like to take a walk in the coastal redwoods? Join us Fri, Oct 4. We’ll leave from church at 8 AM (carpooling) and drive over to Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve a little south of Half Moon Bay. From the parking lot, it’s a 20+ minute walk to a lovely Cathedral Grove. We’ll sit on the ground and meditate for half an hour. Afterwords we’ll share breakfast at a restaurant in Half Moon Bay. (Photo from last week's meditation by David Wartman,)
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Recording of Roy Gesley's Sep 29 sermon
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On Sunday, Roy preached "Capturing the Ox," the latest in our sermon series on the 10 Buddhist ox herding pictures. Listen to the sermon at
collegeheights.us/sermons
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Fri, Oct 11
: Taizé service of contemplation and chant, featuring violist Hillary Lewis (7 pm)
Sun, Oct 13
:
Brian McLaren
in conversation with Penny Nixon at CCSM (7 pm)
Sat, Oct 26
: Celebration of life for John Van Dyke (1 pm, Sanctuary)
Sat, Nov 2
: Church development coach Jason Hubbard leads a workshop (9 am–3 pm)
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"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray."
—Rumi
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Events in the coming week
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Wed, Oct 2
• Meditation (7 am, Pine Room)
• Yoga (9:15 am, Sanctuary)
• Worship and Arts meeting (7 pm, Jan's house)
Sat, Oct 5
Sun, Oct 6
• Worship service: Blessing of the Animals (10 am)
• Smorgy (dinner and conversation) (6 pm)
Mon, Oct 7
• Yoga (5:30 pm)
• Women's fellowship (7 pm, Pine Room)
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